Re: Commit signing

From: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Jan 15, 2007, 13:14 UTC
Message-ID: <200701151314.l0FDEohv008222@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <andyparkins@gmail.com>

Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> wrote:

[...]

> The answer is: no, you can't put your 100+X commits in my repository
> because I don't trust the person who wrote X of them.  It is paranoid,
> and it is overkill, but it is also /my/ repository.  It might also be
> that you are my employee and you will do as you are damn well told.

There is another angle to this: Currently, the "Signed-off-by:" lines give no reliable way of authenticating the origin of a patch, which is needed for traceability of authorship (for which they were introduced in the first place).

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